Manufacture of containers formed of paper or the like.



W. E. HANSHUE.

MANUFACTURE OF CONTAINERS FORMED OF PAPER OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION F|LED JUNE 23. 1913! 1 ,203, 1 95. Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM EDWIN HANSI-IUE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MANUFACTURE OF CONTAINERS FORMED OF PAPER OR THE LIKE.

Application filed June 23, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EDWIN HANsHun, a citizen of the United States, residing at London, in the Kingdom of England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Containers Formed of Paper or the like, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an im provement in connection with the manufacture of that class of containers formed of paper or the like material which is now in general use for the delivery of cream and the like to customers, and which containers after being once used are intended to be destroyed. Such containers are usually of conical form with a bottom piece secured therein in any suitable manner, and are generally provided with a separate lid or disk form which fits into a groove formed in the inner surface of the container.

WVhere large numbers of these containers, of varying sizes, are used, it often occurs that a difficulty arises in finding a lid of the proper size to fit the container and it is the principal object of the present invention to obviate this difliculty by providing an attached lid with its own means for facilitating the removal of the same.

Figure 1, shows the combined body blank and lid secured as hereinafter described; Fig. 2, shows the upper end of the formed receptacle with its lid open, and Fig. 3, shows same with such lid closed.

From these drawings it will be seen that to obviate the difiiculty above indicated I employ a blank 1 for the body portion of the container which has connected to its upper edge, by a neck 2 of suitable width, a disk 3 of the necessary size to form a lid for the container when completed. The body portion 1 and lid 3 with their connecting link 2 are therefore all in one piece, so that it will be seen that when the body portion has been rolled up and the bottom piece Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1916,.

Serial No. 775,327.

(not shown) secured in position and the groove 4: for the lid formed in any ordinary manner, the container will (after treatment where necessary with parafiin wax or other suitable material) be ready for use, and af; ter being filled the neck and lid 3 can be turned down and the latter caused to enter the groove 4 so as to close the container as shown in Fig. 3.

When it is desired to open the container without spilling its contents the neck 2 connecting the body portion 1 and lid 3 can be severed, preferably close to the upper edge of the body portion, as by so doing a tab will be left attached to the lid to assist in the withdrawal of the latter from the groove. In some cases it may be found advisable to use a thicker lid than that consisting merely of. a single thickness of the material used for the body portion, and in these circumstances one or more disks of the same or other material may be secured to either or both sides of the lid portion formed with the body blank, any suitable adhesive or other means being employed for this purpose. It will be readily understood that the body portion 1 of the blank may be formed of such length that when rolled up the sides of the body will be of either one, two, or more times the thickness of the material employed.

I claim:

A cream container formed of, a single piece of plain stiff paper, consisting of a tapered body with permanently closed bottom part and plain upper rim and having an internal circular groove near its plain upper rim, a tab integral with and forming a narrow extension of the upper rim, and a plain circular lid integral with said tab, as and for'the purpose described.

WILLIAM EDWIN HANSHUE.

Witnesses:

E. C. HARKNESS, J. G. MODOUGALL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

